Violence without Guilt Ethical Narratives from the Global South [Hardcover]

This is an illuminating discussion of guilt, fear, violence and aesthetics from a global perspective. Herlinghaus evaluates new Latin American novels, films and music through the lens of some of Walter Benjamin's controversial writings on violence and religion.PART I: A MODERN WAR ON AFFECT From Walter Benjamin's Early Writings to the Perils of Global Modernity PART II: THE NARCOCORRIDO: A PHENOMENOLIGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL LOOK INTO TRANSNATIONAL STORYTELLING When Narcocorridos were born Parataxes unbound Where Affection meets Figuration: Corrido Language and the Intermedial Presence of Death PART III: COLOMBIAN MARGINALITIES AND THE CULTURE OF EXCEPTION Young, Alien and Totally Violence: Marginal 'Kings of the World' Autobiography as Eschatological Project: An Intellectual Struggle Regarding Freedom and Guilt PART IV: AFFECTIVE POLITICS AND THE IMAGE Beyong Bare Life: Affection Images of Violence in Latin American Film

The first scholar to fully realize that there is a both interesting and highly problematic convergence between violence and aesthetic experience . . . Violence without Guilt is an unusual intellectual success. - Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Albert Gu?rard Professor in Literature, Stanford University

Herlinghaus, in his unprecedented book, does not utilize the common tools of literary theory or cinema studies. Instead, he allows us to see new narratives and imaginary forms in Latin America from the perspective of concepts that pertain to philosophical criticism at the cutting edge of modern ethics, epistemology, and global cultural studies. - Beatriz Gonz?lez-Stephan, Lee Hage Jamail Chair of Latin American Literature, Rice University

Herlinghaus revisits the fraught and perennially compelling confluence of affectivity, violence, and guilt as propellants for story telling. Through the philosophical lens of a modern ethics as articulated by cultural critics such as Walter Benjamin, Herlinghaus trains his own lÃq